What Not to Say in a Grant Application
This is a guest blog post by Diane H. Leonard, GPC Sometimes, it is just as important to know what NOT to say, as it is to know …
Category: Grants
6 Tips to Improve Relationships with Grantmakers for Effective Organizations
In addition to thinking about your personal relationships, take some time to think about your relationships with your current and potential grant makers for your effective organization. In this …
3 Reasons to Build Relationships with Grant Makers
By Diane H. Leonard, GPC What is all the talk about in grant seeking best practices about building relationships? Are relationships with grant makers really such an important part …
5 Things Not to Say in Grant Applications
Instead of talking about what to say in your grant applications, we thought what if instead we focus on what NOT to say in a grant application? After years …
Leave No Rock Unturned in Your Grant Research
Finding a needle in a haystack. Finding a diamond in the rough. Leaving no rock unturned. Casting a wider net. Once in a blue moon. Looking for a polar …
Walk a Mile In Your Grant Reviewer’s Shoes
Have you ever received a rejection letter from a grantmaker and wondered what you could have done differently? Have you ever wondered, as you clicked submit for a significant …
Common Grant Seeking Challenges
At the start of 2016 I asked colleagues and CharityHowTo webinar participants about what their biggest challenges were for a successful grant seeking strategy in 2016. There definitely was …
Key First Step In Grant Seeking: Effective Grant Research
There are numerous paid databases available to assist you in your grantmaker research. They can make your grant research much more efficient. Yet how do you decide which one …
5 Tips To Knock Your Grant Reviewer’s Socks Off
As grant professionals, we rarely know exactly who will be the reviewers of the grant proposals we have toiled over for hours and hours. We assume that they have …
How to Write a Bulletproof Grant Budget
Would you believe me if I told you that the grant budget is often the *first* reviewed portion of a grant application packet by the grant reviewer, grantmaker staff, …
What Makes Your Grant Proposals Stand Out?
Just getting started in grant writing? Trying to be more competitive with the applications you submit? There are numerous qualities that describe excellent proposals regardless of the program focus. …
Are you Eligible for Federal Grants for Nonprofits?
Are you an organization that is considering applying for federal grants for nonprofits? Do you think you are a “grant ready ” organization? You are likely part of an …